Category :News This Week

After it finalizes its ban on gutkha, the Indian state of Assam might turn its attention to banning all forms of tobacco products, including cigarettes and bidis, according to a story in The Assam Tribune. Read More

The smokeless tobacco category provided another solid year for U.S. convenience stores in 2012, and all signs indicate that this year should remain just as strong, according to a story in Convenience Store Decisions (CSD). Read More

Italy has announced plans to raise the legal age limit for people buying e-cigarettes from 16 to 18 years old, according to an Agence France Presse story. The new rules, which are due to go into effect Read More

Malaysia is to crackdown on the illicit trade in cigarettes, which, it is claimed, is costing the government RM2 billion in tax revenue annually, according to a story in The Star. The crackdown, which is Read More

All grocery stores in residential areas and near schools in the United Arab Emirates city of Sharjah have been banned from selling cigarettes, according to a story in The National. The ban, effective immediately, was Read More

Smoking might be a sign of psychiatric illness, so doctors should routinely consider referring people who smoke to mental health services in case they need treatment, according to a story by Jeremy Laurance for The Read More

Hungary will issue a new tender for retail tobacco sales in 1,417 communities from which no applications were received during the initial tender, according to a Budapest Business Journal story quoting MTI-Econews. The country’s parliament Read More

More than 20,000 tobacco farmers in Migori, Kenya, have asked the county government to help identify investors who would be willing to build a factory in the area, according to a story by Manuel Odeny for Read More

The smuggling of cigarettes into South Korea has soared this year, apparently on the back of mere plans to increase the excise duty on tobacco products, according to a story in The Korea Times. The Read More

Scientists at British American Tobacco have shown that less than a third of each snus constituent they measured was extracted by consumers during use. A EurekAlert story on the BAT study published in Chemistry Central Read More